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Hand Tool Class

– Hand Tool Class can be Downloaded or Streamed
– over 3.5 hours with extra $24.00 in plans
– 24 video lessons from workshop basics to critical hand tools skills
– lessons can be followed in any order and stopped and repeated at any time
– all lessons are included in single price
– printable reference material included
– Dovetail Jig Plan + Tutorial ($12 value) included in purchase
– Shooting Board Plan + Tutorial ($12 value) included in purchase

The video lessons include step by step hand tool sequences. Each lesson guides you through the learning process to develop the hand tool skills you are seeking. This Hand Tool Class is derived from twenty years of woodworking and furniture making expertise. The class is based on skills developed and used in a fully functioning furniture making studio. The class features separate modules on the following topics:

– setting up a workshop for woodworking
– up to date information on workshop safety
– hand tool overview
– lessons on handplanes and chisels
– lessons on clamps, hammers and handsaws
– lessons on marking gauges, rulers and squares
– learn to create handmade dovetails using a dovetail jig
– learn to make and use a shooting board
– learn to make and use bench hooks
– dovetail jig plan + shooting board plan ($24 value)
– hand tools class covers everything you need to get going with hand tools

For a limited time, receive WOODSKILLS Issue 01 & 02 (digital) $16 value with purchase of a class or course.

Norman maintains a blog of ongoing projects in his studio at Pirollo Design Blog as well as having written and published four books in the past year. Some of the books and magazines where authors furniture, work methods and philosophy have been featured: